Satyajit Ray Quotes
Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
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I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.
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I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.
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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
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I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
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No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
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When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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16. Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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This must be our belief when we have a correct knowledge of our own self, and comprehend the true nature of everything; we must be content, and not trouble our mind with seeking a certain final cause for things that have none, or have no other final cause but their own existence, which depends on the Will of God, or, if you prefer, on the Divine Wisdom.
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Rio 2016 is definitely on my mind, and I would really like to go to some more World Championships before that.
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I wouldn't mind being dead - it would be something new.
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Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.
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That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story .
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Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.
